Guess Love does mean having to say you’re sorry
Felony assault with a deadly weapon is the charge of the week for erratic rocker Courtney Love. Love allegedly attacked another female singer with a bottle and a metal flashlight in April at the L.A. home of former manager/boyfriend Jim Barber — the same place where she had her infamous meltdown last October.
She has pleaded guilty to being under the influence of a controlled substance at the time of her arrest last Oct. 2, when she was caught trying to break into Barber’s house through a smashed window. Prosecutors are expected to push for mandatory drug rehab when she’s sentenced July 16.
But Love is hoping to be let off the hook on two counts of illegal drug possession from that same night, when she allegedly overdosed on painkillers in front of her 11-year-old daughter, Frances Bean. Last month, Love pleaded innocent to two misdemeanor charges of assault and reckless endangerment stemming from a New York nightclub incident when she tossed a microphone stand into the crowd, clobbering one man on the head.
And as if her court docket weren’t busy enough, Love is also being sued by her New York condo board for failing to pay any bills since the October arrest.
Britney turns her trick knee
Pop princess Britney Spears injured her knee during a video shoot Tuesday and was hospitalized for arthroscopic surgery. Spears was completing outdoor scenes for the video of her new single, “Outrageous,” with rapper Snoop Dogg in the New York City borough of Queens. The song will be featured in the movie “Catwoman,” due next month.
Spears, scheduled to begin a North American tour June 22, was forced to cancel two shows in March because of a knee injury.
Well, Van Halen is always available
Reality TV maven Mark Burnett, maker of “Survivor” and “The Apprentice,” is pitching an idea for “Rock Star,” an “American Idol”-type show where contestants would compete for the chance to sing in an established rock band and go on a world tour.
“I feel that there’s room on TV for more than one great big talent show, and I feel that rock music has been totally left out of that mix,” Burnett told the syndicated entertainment TV show “Access Hollywood.” He would not reveal the band.
It’s left a sour taste in everyone’s mouth
A judge has given television chef Rocco DiSpirito permission to enter the restaurant that bears his name so he could take photographs of himself for a new cookbook.
DiSpirito’s financial backers sued him in February, saying he mismanaged Rocco’s 22nd Street, subject of NBC’s reality series “The Restaurant.” An attorney for the investors tried to ban the chef from the building permanently, claiming he had stolen restaurant property and assaulted its manager.
And you thought Courtney needed rehab
Longtime Jell-O pitchman Bill Cosby apparently has a more complicated relationship with the confection than we realized.
In an appearance this week at the Jell-O Museum in Le Roy, N.Y., Cosby revealed that as a kid, he particularly liked the taste of lemon-flavored Jell-O that had been sitting in the fridge for two weeks.
“It was rubbery and chewy! Remember? You say, ‘Oh, man, there’s an old Jell-O in there.’ And finally, when you’re by yourself, you say, ‘I need something good,’ and you pick it up. And it takes maybe, you know, about three or four days — in your mouth — and then it starts to melt and you say, ‘Oooh, it’s kicking in!’ ”
The birthday bunch
Actor Gene Wilder is 71. Singer Joey Dee is 64. Bassist Smilin’ Jay McDowell (BR5-49) is 35. Actor Joshua Jackson is 26.